Word Meanings - DREVIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fool; a drudge. See Drivel.

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• DRIVEL
  To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
• DRUDGER
  1. One who drudges; a drudge. 2. A dredging box.
• DRUDGE
  To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue. He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged. Macaulay.
• DRUDGERY
  The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil. The drudgery of penning definitions. Macaulay. Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery and with out sorrow. Locke. Syn. -- See Toll.
• ENDRUDGE
  To make a drudge or slave of. Bp. Hall.